Did anyone see the Keno Bros. new show on Fox last night, Buried Treasure? I enjoyed it, for all its silliness (dramatic cliffhangers before the commercials). I am addicted to both *Hoarders *and Antiques Roadshow, so this was like Methadone for me.
Plus, the thought of having two hot-nerd twins come to one’s house to snoop around . . . One of the Kenos picked up a violin and said, “I am going to look into your f-hole now,” and I blushed.
No, but I will be looking for it online now!
LOVED this show. Hated the comic book geek and his girlfriend… seriously, you’re living in a one bedroom apartment, someone offers your boyfriend $58,000 for a piece of cellophane ( hyperbole!! ), and despite the fact that you’d JUST been bitching about your living conditions, you cry and talk him out of it??? Aaauuuughhhhh!!
Was genuinely sad about the violin situation, though I guess now they can enjoy it as a family heirloom/remembrance of the deceased dad.
Any guesses as to whether or not the upcoming guy with the harpy wife has an actual Rembrandt?
Oooh, I must look into this. I too am a Hoarders/Antique Roadshow addict. If they could find some way to include Mythbusters in the mix, I could die happy.
I enjoy Antique Roadshow but have never seen Hoarders, figuring I’d probably get too squicked out. Buried Treasure, eh? I’ll have to give it a look see next time.
I did enjoy something similar last week, Sister Pickers. It’s kinda like the other Pickers, only way less annoying personalities and they make some really cool art out of what they find.
“It’s kinda like the other Pickers…”
American, not Nose.
Yeah, I wanted to smack the shit out of Comic Book Guy and his eye-rolling girlfriend, too, and I suspect so did everyone on the show.
I doubt Violin Family is hurting for money, by the looks of their house, though everyone could use that extra $3 million.
The Hoarder Dickenses were a trip . . . How many people on *Hoarders *have actual nice valuable antiques in their piles of garbage and sailcats? Ma Dickens was surprisingly good about letting her stuff be auctioned off.
The comic book guy was an f-ing joke. He had landmark Silver Age Marvel books that weren’t sealed and more importantly, weren’t graded. I’ve worked in a comic store in years and I’m out of touch with grading because I know standards have changed, but even I could have looked at those and told him they were damaged and therefore sharply devalued.
Then there was the whoring out of his comic that I’ve never heard of but looked like some 90’s Image crap. He had posters all over the place, a T-shirt with it on, and it looked as if that stupid leather jacket was custom made to look like the country. What a tool.
Anyway, if this means that the Keno brothers are going to be on Antiques Roadshow less then that sucks.
Oh I missed it! I’ll be sure to watch it the next time it rolls around.
Also, is it me or does anyone else get an incesty twin vibe off of those two? It is only me? Nevermind.
The Kenos are . . . interesting. One of them mentions his wife and sons at every opportunity, the other not so much. They are kinda hot, in a nerdy “male Meryl Streep” private-school way.
Actually, I didn’t care for the way that the Keno brothers seemed to be pushing him into selling his stuff to the collectors they introduced him to. It seemed a conflict of interest. The collectors started by offering him $50,000 for that animation cel and then quickly raised the offer to $58,000. Could he do better elsewhere? Could he do better by offering it in an auction of animation art, one that’s been widely advertised so that collectors around the world are aware of the piece?
Ah, phooey, meant to watch this and forgot. Someone remind me next week, 'kay?
I had to check this show out to see how ridiculous it would be, and I wasn’t disappointed.
There was no chance that violin was really from the 17th century. For one thing, the label inside is the last place someone who’s knowledgeable would look to determine authenticity. Especially because the date printed on it (1672) was thirty or so years after the maker had died. Once they brought in the violinist to play it, it was pretty obviously a cheap copy.
The Comic Book Guy looked like he seriously expected Nicholas Cage to walk in and offer him half a million dollars for the animation cel.
Actually, yeah, even *I *could tell the difference, on my crappy TV and with no violin knowledge at all. (Of course, I am generally opposed to violins on television)
I didn’t see it - meant to - I’ll set the DVR tonight.
Re the animation cell: If you’ve got any collectible of actual value, and you know for a fact that it’s going to be shown nationwide on TV in a few weeks, you’d be stupid to sell it before that happens. The price will almost certainly go up once it becomes well known.
Fox.com now makes me wait EIGHT DAYS to watch something? The BASTARDS!
Since the digital switch, I very rarely get Fox.
I shall now sob uncontrollably.
How many people are going to buy an animation cel for $50,000 or $100,000? Not many I think.
Any dealer who specializes in animation art will already know all of the potential buyers for such an item. So if it comes up for sale or auction they can contact each of the buyers easily enough. If those dealers that the Keno brothers brought in really were experts in animation art, they will know who would be interested in the piece. That’s why I thought it was a conflict of interest; perhaps they were offering $58,000 for the piece because they already knew that they could resell it for much more. I think the deal made for the Dickens photograph was better in that the offer was to place the piece in an auction.
Okay, Leigh or Les? They aren’t TOTALLY identical.
And what the hell is it about Meryl Streep? One second she’s a middleaged Houston housewife, nice enough but nothing special, but then she laughs and I melt.
yeah, i think they just wanted more $$ for it. if the appraisers were willing to spend almost $60k, they surely had plans to sell it for $75k or more. why go thru the middlemen?
i loved this show!
Just a bump for those of you who missed it last week–it’s on tonight (Weds.), 8:00 (Eastern Time), on your local Fox affiliate.
Now, Miss Betty Furness, for the new magic Westy Westinghouse refrigerator